Police officers maintain a cordon at the scene of the Finsbury Park. Counterterrorist teams across the country are running about 500 investigations Victoria Jones/PANine terror plots have been thwarted since March, it was revealed yesterday as the size of the terror threat facing the UK was laid bare. Overall 22 terror plots have been foiled by police since the killing of Lee Rigby outside an army barracks in southeast London in 2013. Three thousand terror suspects are being tracked by the authorities at any one time, according to the Anderson report, which highlights the scale of the task. Counterterrorist teams across the country are running about 500 live investigations, which involve about 3,000 people at any one time.

Source: The Times December 06, 2017 00:11 UTC